Unless you believe the gospel, everything you do will be driven by either pride or fear.

Christmas is telling you that you could never get to heaven on your own. God had to come to you.

Jesus does not just bring good news; he is the good news.

Careful obedience to God’s law may serve as a strategy for rebelling against God

The resurrection of the body means that we do not merely receive a consolation for the life we have lost but a restoration of it. We not only get the bodies and lives we had but the bodies and lives we wished for but had never before received.

Only if God can say things that make you struggle will you know that you have met a real God and not a figment of your imagination.

Think like a prophet, serve like a priest, and plan like a king.